Maggie Haberman Says Trump Hasn’t Done Anything To ‘Directly Impact’ Grocery Prices Amid ‘Shock And Awe’ First Month

CNN commentator and New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman said President Donald Trump’s “shock and awe” first month in office hasn’t included anything to “directly impact voters” when it comes to the “price at the grocery stores and so forth.”

Trump spent months promising to “end inflation” and that prices would “come down, and they’ll come down fast” if he was elected.

But Trump changed his tune just weeks after that victory, first telling NBC News that he could not “guarantee” prices would come down and then telling Time, “It’s hard to bring things down once they’re up. You know, it’s very hard.”

After an ugly January CPI report, polling shows Americans don’t think Trump is focused enough on bringing prices down.

On Thursday night’s edition of CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, host Anderson Cooper asked Haberman — whose insights into Trump are informed by deep experience reporting on the subject and a network of Trumpworld sources — to assess Trump’s mood after a month in office.

Haberman said Trump is mostly happy, but is “worried” about inflation — and pointed out his flurry of actions hasn’t included anything that “really directly impact voters in terms of their pocketbooks and their lives”:

COOPER: So, Maggie, one month into President Trump’s new term, obviously a lot on his plate. The war in Ukraine, DOGE, pushing out his perceived enemies from the Justice Department. Is it clear how — I mean, do you know how the president thinks it’s going? I would assume he thinks it’s going pretty well.

MAGGIE HABERMAN, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST: He’s quite happy, Anderson. I mean, I think there are things that he worries about. You know, inflation is clearly one. You’ve heard him talk about that a number of times, his advisers, certainly are worried about that, because for all of the measures he’s taken so far, there aren’t any that really directly impact voters in terms of their pocketbooks and their lives, you know, in their homes, you know, the price at grocery stores and so forth.

But he has done most of what he said he was going to do. There was a plan to come in with this shock and awe campaign on a number of fronts, and he’s done it.

And he’s very happy about the hostage exchanges, and he’s very happy about a number of things. But there’s also a sense of, you know, when you flood the zone, then it’s very hard for anything specific to stick out and stick. And I think you are seeing the administration try to highlight certain things that are not just answering questions about what DOGE is up to.

Watch above via Anderson Cooper 360.